The St. Petersburg National Research University of IT, Mechanics, and Optics team won the International Collegiate Programming Contest of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM ICPC) for the seventh time. The ACM ICPC finals, which were organized in Saint Petersburg last week, attracted 120 teams from 36 countries.
The winning team of three students, who solved 10 out of 11 problems in five hours, received a $12,000 prize.
The ACM contest has a huge echo among Russian computer science students, and some prepare years for this competition. Each student can only participate in the ACM ICPC twice in his or her lifetime.
In March 2013, a Russian programmer won another prestigious award, the — Facebook Hacker Cup, — together with a $10,000 prize. Moreover, this week Saint Petersburg is hosting yet another programming competition, — the Microsoft Imagine Cup.
